Does someone know the answer to this?
Say the Heat do get Bosh's salary off the books in Feb 2017, then sign a max contract in the summer of 2017. What happens if any team signs Bosh during the summer and he actually plays the 25 games thereafter? It wouldn't impact the max signing at all, so I'm guessing it would just be an extreme salary hit? I wouldn't think that's "sticking it to Riley" since he got his max player anyways. Instead, it's more like "sticking it to Arison".